Today we're announcing the release of Parthenon 2.0. With this release, there are updates like all other releases. But the main change is that Parthenon is now available under the Business Source License. This means that it is now free to use Parthenon for non-production use, such as: development, testing, and evaluation. We're also granting an additional usage for production use to those generating less than $5,000 US Dollars a month. Previously, Parthenon was only available for a fee.

GDPR has been in place for years now, and we’re starting to learn more and more about how it’s going to be enforced and what it really means. The many questions people had that could only be answered by court decisions have now been answered. Over the past years, I’ve seen systems try and fail to correct implement GDPR. Here are the things I’ve learnt from court decisions and from mistakes made.

If you want to operate within the EU you need to follow the strict data privacy law, GDPR. And many of use are searching for the best GDPR compliance tools.

Some of the things you need to pay attention to with GDPR are:

• Cookie and Localstorage usage
• Where the data is stored
• If processing personal data without need
• Where the company is based.

I'm month two into my 6-month project to build 6 SaaS applications in 6 months. I started work on the 2nd SaaS a month ago, and it's Blether.chat - a GDPR Compliant Live Chat that integrates with Slack. How did I come up with the idea for Blether? I hate cookie consent banners so I don't want to have them on my site, but at the same time, I wanted to be able to chat with potential customers for Parthenon. Therefore I needed one that would allow me to do that without adding a cookie banner. The answer is Blether.

A few days ago I saw someone ask if Sylius was a good eCommerce system to use, which it is. And my first thought to head was "Of course because it's Symfony based." then I wondered what the options and systems built on Laravel and thought it would be interesting to list out were. So here we are. I'll go through the systems I know of for various categories for both Symfony and Laravel.